Interview Preparation Guide

A four-week plan, project explanation prompts and a mock-interview checklist.

Week 1: Understand the role

• Read the job description and separate essential from optional requirements.
• Identify examples from your coursework, projects and experience.
• Practise a 60-second introduction using real details.

Week 2: Practise core skills

• For coding roles: solve a few problems and explain correctness and complexity.
• For analytics roles: query a small dataset and interpret a chart.
• For business roles: work through a case and explain assumptions.
• Track mistakes and revisit the underlying concept.

Week 3: Explain your projects

Answer: What problem did you solve? What did you build yourself? What failed? How did you test it? What would you improve?

Practise a two-minute overview and a deeper explanation of one feature.

Week 4: Mock interviews and applications

• Practise one role-specific mock interview.
• Ask for feedback on clarity, reasoning and evidence.
• Check your resume links and application details.
• Record follow-up actions in an application tracker.

Behavioural answer framework

Situation: relevant context.

Task: what you needed to achieve.

Action: what you personally did.

Result: what actually happened and what you learned.

During the interview

Clarify the question, state assumptions, explain your approach and ask for a moment to think when needed. Say when you do not know; explain how you would investigate.

Review sheet

Date:

Role:

Question:

What went well:

Knowledge gap:

Next practice task:

Preparation improves readiness; it does not guarantee selection.